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Notice of Chew's Battery,
Fort Yates, Dak., February 17th, 1887. Editor Southern Historical Society Papers:
Sir—Having read much of your valuable history of the war, giving battles, heroic charges and repulses by different commands, I have never seen mentioned one battery, viz.: it was organized in Charlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, in the early part of 1861, by Captain John Chew, with James W. Thompson as First Lieutenant, Tuck Carter Second Lieutenant, and John J. Williams
Third Lieutenant, and was assigned to Ashby's (afterwards known as Rosser's) brigade, as a light battery.
After the battle of New Hope, Virginia, Lieutenant Thompson was promoted major on Fitzhugh Lee's staff (he was afterwards killed at the battle of High Bridge and interred at Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia), Carter Captain, Williams First Lieutenant, and Yancy Second Lieutenant.
After our misfortune at Woodstock or Tom Brook, in October, 1864, losing part of our guns, we moved i